תַּרְבִּית
tarbit · interest (increase)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8636 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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tarbit (תַּרְבִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “interest (increase)”.
Gain charged in addition when a loan is repaid.
How to say it
tar·bit
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- What is charged on top of a loan.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- profit ×5
- usury ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 25:36
Do not take from him interest or profit, but fear your Elohim, so that your brother may live with you.
- Proverbs 28:8
Whoever increases his wealth by interest and usury gathers it for one who is gracious to the poor.
- Ezekiel 18:8
he does not lend at interest nor take profit; from injustice he withdraws his hand; he executes true judgment between man and man;
- Ezekiel 18:13
lends at interest and takes profit: will he live? He will not live. All these abominations he has done; he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on him.
- Ezekiel 18:17
from the poor he withdraws his hand; he does not take interest or profit; he does my rules and walks in my statutes: he will not die for the iniquity of his father; he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 22:12
Bribes they have taken in you to shed blood; interest and profit you have taken, and you have despoiled your neighbors with exploitation, and me you have forgotten, declares Adonai YHWH.